If the US had only bought steel at the lowest prices from the days of the Civil War on, it would never have had any steel industry. Now, again, and again, explain just how great that would have been for the country.
It's "Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit," you idiot.
If the US had only bought steel at the lowest prices from the days of the Civil War on, it would never have had any steel industry.
False. The US already had a steel before the civil war therefore your claim cannot be true. In fact it was that steel industry that campaigned for the overtly protective Morrill tariff act.